S is for Nicole Scherzinger, A-Z of Filipino Cultural Exports
B. 1978 / Perhaps an unlikely candidate for my final cut…but despite appearances I think Nicole Scherzinger is a true artist. With a career spanning over 16 years, time alone has proven Scherzinger’s talent and survival instincts in the cutthroat world of the music industry. Perhaps better known by UK audiences as a judge on Simon Cowell’s X Factor (2010/ 2012), Scherzinger is a talented singer/ songwriter and former lead singer of successful girl pop group ‘The Pussy Cat Dolls’ (2003-2010).
Nicole Scherzinger, is a strange beauty. At a glance I thought she was black – – this has been echoed throughout her career, by critics negatively comparing her to Beyonce. The comparison is inevitable as both girls are from the same generation with shared influences, ranging from powerhouses like Whitney Houston & Tina Turner, to stage performers such as Mick Jagger & Prince. The female pop stars, have a shared musical education, which has been remixed and reinterpreted for their own singing and dancing stage acts. Scherzinger, like Beyonce – grew up in America, but is in fact mixed race; her father is of Filipino descent and her mother of Native Hawaiian and Russian descent. Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, her parents split when she young and she took on her stepfather’s surname. Nicole Scherzinger has been mistaken as Pakistani – this is of little wonder, due to her hit song ‘Jai Ho’, for Slumdog Millionaire (2008).
Scherzinger is also the face of Müller youghurt – Mullericious!
#OFW more than a country of good looking, half-wit, opportunistic terrorists
